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A welcome gift from Taipei

The city council of Taipei, Taiwan gives Seattle a pavilion for Hing Hay Park. Includes commentary on Seattle's last gift from an Asian country: the City of Tokyo, Japan, gave a gift of a tea house for the Japanese Garden in the Arboretum.

Japanes TV Crew Films in Seattle

Japanese film makers are in Seattle to make a film on an immigrant, Waka Yamada, who was sold into Seattle prostitution at the turn of the twentieth century and lived at Aloha House in the International District. Assisting the crew is Uhachi Tamesa…

The Many Roads To Highline

History of the early Japanese settlers in the Highline, WA also known as Sunnydale, WA ) and tells the story of the families of Uhachi Tamesa and Kyosuke Yokoa

What's Happened To South Park

South Park near Seattle has changed from small farms and a close-knit society to few farms and industrial building.

Bills Provide for Compensation to Japanese American State Employees

Bills in Washington State House and Senate would compensate Japanese American state employees who lost their jobs because of Executive Order 9066.

For the Duration: The Long March to Internment Camp

Article in Sunday Northwest section written in the present tense to desctibe the evacuation of Seattle Japanese to Puyallup Fairgrounds.